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Publication details [#33021]

Dubois, Sylvie and Barbara Horvath. 2003. The English Vernacular of the Creoles of Louisiana. Language Variation and Change 15 (03).

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

creole | language change | vernacular

Language as a subject

Creole, Louisiana

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

ISBN

0954-3945

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

The English Vernacular of the Creoles of African Americans in southern Louisiana shows language change in the shift from French to English and he persistence of local forms of English.